"Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business."
- Penelope Lively
"I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of Thetford, taken in 1868, in which William Smith is not. The street is empty. There is a g..."
"Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives."
"Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing."
"We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people."